Recent Insights into a Manuscript of Ornate Poetry from Toyoq: A new Fragment of Mātṛceṭa’s Varṇārhavarṇa

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The article continues a series of publications of the Sanskrit manuscript fragments written in the Proto-Śāradā script, kept in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authors introduce into scientific circulation a fragment of the Varṇārhavarṇa, the work of the famous Buddhist thinker and poet Mātṛceṭa. The article provides the paleographic analysis of the manuscript fragment, as well as brief information about the author, his works, the Varṇārhavarṇa structure. The article provides transliteration and translation of the fragment.

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Safarali H. Shomakhmadov

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: safaralihshom@mail.ru
Russian Federation

Jens-Uwe Hartmann

Institute of Indology and Tibetology, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

Author for correspondence.
Email: juhartmann@lmu.de
Germany, Munich

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